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"title": "Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes",
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"title": "Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors",
"description": "Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000); China Institute in America, New York, NY (February 6-June 2, 2002); Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (December 20, 2003-February 29, 2004).",
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"title": "La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre",
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"description": "This mirror bears an important inscription as well as symbolic imagery of the Eight Trigrams and Heaven and Earth to express the ancient Chinese cosmological ideas. The inscription reads:
Circle above and square below:
These are symbolic of heaven and earth.
In the middle are the Eight Trigrams.
Making clear [the forces of] yin and yang.
Stars and constellations are well aligned;
The sun and the moon are virtuous and bright.
Circulating around [the earth] is water,
Giving identity to the Four Great Rivers.
Within are the mountain ranges,
To signify the lordly heights.",
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"citation": "Cahill, Suzanne E. \"The Moon Stopping in the Void: Daoism and the LIterati Ideal in Mirrors of the Tang Dynasty.\" .Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 9 (2005): 24-41.",
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"citation": "Delacour, Catherine. La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'e\u0302tre : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010.",
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